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Avastin & FDA: There’s No ‘Average’ Cancer Patient
Last year, the FDA began the process of revoking Avastin’s approval for breast cancer. … What is the logic of keeping terminally ill patients from potential treatments? Can’t they at least go down fighting? Continue reading
Hey, Paul Krugman, patients should be consumers, not helpless pawns in an authoritarian politically-controlled health care system you support
Nobel-prize winner & New York Times Columnist Paul Krugman is demonstrates how little he knows about health care policy. Let me count the ways. Continue reading
FDA on your DNA: “You can’t handle the truth!”
From Paul Hsieh: Recent advances in biotechnology have allowed private companies to offer affordable genetic testing directly to consumers, to help them determine their risks of developing problems such as diabetes, heart disease, and various forms of cancer. In response, … Continue reading
Posted in Policy - National, PPC
Tagged choice, FDA, genetic testing, medical technology and innovation, nanny state
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ObamaCare: Insurers Need Permission to Survive; Citizens, to Live
This is the provocative title of Dr. Paul Hsieh‘s recent article in Pajamas Media. It begins: Suppose our government declared that everyone had the “right” to a nice steak dinner. The government would require restaurants to sell $50 steak dinners … Continue reading
Is mandatory insurance like a tax exemption for mortage interest?
David Catron at Health Care BS quotes Florida Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz on whether ObamaCare authorizes government to require citizens to buy health insurance: We actually have not required in this law that you carry health insurance … What we’re … Continue reading
Defeat ObamaCare’s “moral narrative”
Paul Hsieh, M.D. writes: The key is Obama’s declaration, “I don’t know how this plays politically, but I know it’s right.” Ultimately, Obama and his liberal base believe that government-guaranteed health care is a “moral imperative” — i.e., “it’s right.” … Continue reading
Medicaid applicants “don’t get timely benefits”
The Denver Post reminds us of why government should neither expand Medicaid, nor force us to donate to charities, especially ones run by government: Roughly 19 percent of new food-stamp applications were delayed statewide in October. For Medicaid, 18 percent … Continue reading
Idaho’s Health Freedom Act moves forward
From the Idaho Reporter: In a contentious hearing Thursday morning in the House State Affairs Committee, the Idaho Health Freedom Act (IFHA), sponsored by Rep. Jim Clark, R-Hayden, and co-sponsored by Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Eagle, and Rep. Lynn Luker, R-Boise, … Continue reading
Obama Care: prohibit buying what you want, mandate what you don’t want
Dr. Paul Hsieh points out some scary aspects of the House health bill (HR 3962) and the Senate health bill (HR 3590): Under ObamaCare, patients will be forced to pay for certain kinds of medical care whether they want it … Continue reading
Posted in Medicaid/Medicare/SCHIP, Policy - National, PPC
Tagged choice, HR 3590, HR 3962, mandated benefits, Medicare, preventive care
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Medicare Advantage exposes Medicare’s hidden tax
Says John Graham at the Pacific Research Institute in a new study: Medicare Advantage … allows consumers to get their benefits through private insurance plans. Under the Senate Health Care bill, the Medicare Advantage program, would be cut by about … Continue reading
Posted in myths & fallacies
Tagged choice, health insurance vouchers, HR 3590, Medicare Advantage, uninsured cost-shift
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